Thank you sir, may I have another?
I have now completed 2 of my 4 finals. This morning was Old Testament. I studied last night (this morning, to be precise) until about 5AM. I woke up after about 3 hours of sleep with the feeling that the final would go about as smoothly as shifting from 60 to reverse on the freeway. Aside from only having 1 day to prepare for this exam, the prof is known to ask tricky or obscure questions.
Thankfully, the exam went quite well. Much to the dissapointment of our class’s guru-of-speculation, we did not have to discuss the length of a creation day. I feel I answered all the questions well, I even managed to quote a page number, which is pretty impressive for a closed book exam (in my humble opinion).
So, the most difficult of my finals are now behind me. Now I have to teach myself some apologetics (as the profesor neglected to do that) for Tuesday, and make sure I can still do a little bit of Greek for Friday.
I’ve come to the conclusion that pastors are required to go to seminary not primarily because of what they learn while they are there (though that is, of course, quite useful). The real reason is that after 3 years of being daily confronted with one’s own inadequicies, one can’t help but emerge as a humble servant of God.
That’s it for now. We get free dinner tonight! Woo hoo!